You probably know how hazardous plastic waste is for our environment, simply because it does not decay like most other materials – the mind-numbing figure for plastic garbage like straws, bottles and bags is that it can take up to 1000 years to decompose!
But did you know there’s another vicious silent killer called ‘microplastics’ – tiny microscopic debris from larger plastic pieces (one plastic bottle breaks down into 10,000 microplastic pieces!) or inbuilt plastic fiber in numerous products. Read about the frightening outcome of microplastic waste and how to reduce its polluting potential in this thought-provoking infographic.
Microplastics Pollution Threaten Our Environment:
Infographic by – GreenMatch